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Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 07:52:10 -0500
From: Jack Norton <jack@0x6a.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Location of plan9.ini
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On 5/10/2012 7:38 AM, IainWS wrote:
> On May 10, 10:15 pm, quans...@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom) wrote:
>>> Yes, but I get /bin/9fat does not exist.
>>
>> don't drop the ":".  you need to type "9fat:".
>>
>> - erik
>
> Thanks mate it worked first go.
>

I know this will sound terribly stupid but I've a good beginners tip:
open up two rio windows (nice and large).  in one, `lc /bin`.  in the
other, go through each binary in bin you listed and execute.  If
something isn't obvious, then man that binary.  if there is no man page,
go to /sys/src/cmd and find the source and read it.
After that, then have a look in /rc/bin as well.

Just poke around.  Assume that you will probably hose your system a few
times in the process.  In fact, if you haven't hosed your system yet,
you aren't climbing up the learning curve.

-Jack